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“TO BE HOPEFUL in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.

What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.

And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”

― Howard Zinn

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    Critical Resistance
    Critical Resistance

    The Trump administration is quietly creating offshore detention, disappearance, and exile—and Americans could soon be next.

    Published On: 04/11/2025

    Published On: 04/11/2025

  • Trumpocalypse Now

    Oliver Darcy
    Status

    After years of warnings about what Donald Trump would do if he returned to power, the president is dismantling institutions, warping law enforcement agencies, seeking retribution on his critics, treating undocumented immigrants with cruelty, imposing and threatening seismic tariffs, and openly musing about seizing foreign territories. The American experiment is convulsing before our eyes.

    And yet, you wouldn't quite realize it from the tone of the news coverage.

    Published On: 02/05/2025

    Published On: 02/05/2025

  • The MAGA Assault on the Media Is Picking Up Steam

    CHRIS LEHMANN
    The Nation

    Trump’s courts-based intimidation campaign against the press descends from handiwork of one of his most prominent Silicon Valley backers, venture capitalist and neo-reactionary ghoul Peter Thiel.

    Published On: 02/03/2025

    Published On: 02/03/2025

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  • Pope Leo XIV asks journalists to use communication as a tool for peace

    Sarah Ventre
    NPR

    We must say 'no' to the war of words and images; we must reject the paradigm of war,"

    Published On: 05/12/2025

  • Accountable Policing

    Shea Howell
    James and Grace Lee Boggs Center

    Holding police officers accountable when they commit crimes or violate constitutional rights is one of the most difficult things to do in law.

    Published On: 05/10/2025

  • Asylum for Trans Brits and Americans: We Need to Talk

    Jenny List
    https://transrescue.org/asylum-for-trans-brits-and-americans-we-need-to-talk

    There are still plenty of options for leaving the USA or the UK which do not involve asylum, and we believe at the time of writing that they represent a far better choice.

    Published On: 05/08/2025

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    Lucid

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    Published On: 05/08/2025

  • The Obscenity of Collective Punishment in Gaza

    John Feffer
    Institute for Policy Studies

    Netanyahu is about to escalate, yet again, his war crimes in Gaza.

    Published On: 05/07/2025

  • Streamer detained at the border and questioned for hours

    Taylor Lorenz
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